For the BALLS! audience

Tonight, I'll be performing in Mare Trevathan and Melanie Owen-Padilla's wayward holiday brainchild, BALLS! It's part variety show, part living room party. I can't wait to see what they've cooked up!




Speaking of cooking, I plan to refer to this very, very yummy recipe by Giada De Laurentiis just before I perform "The Christmas Song," by Mel Torme, with Jimmy Ruberto on the upright bass. (A dream come true for me.)

So I'm placing this here for anyone in the audience who decides to embrace the chestnut and make it for their Christmas dinner: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/raffys-turkey-sausage-and-chestnut-stuffing-recipe/index.html

Merry Christmas, all! And after the holidays, if you want to blow off some steam with more onstage zaniness, drop by Freak Train on the 28th!

Hard work gives you permission

"What are we doing in rehearsal? What are we striving for? What is the point of all the discipline, hard work and training? The preparation and sweating and memorizing and studying is not the point, rather it is the indispensable discipline and sweat that endows upon us the permission to take up space and make wild, surprising and untamed choices."


I love this woman.


Read more from Anne Bogart here: http://siti.groupsite.com/post/october-2009-fuck-you-anne